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- MDMTEST1.EXE and MDMTEST2.EXE are simple programs written to help you
- with tuning the RXB of your TCM3105 based modem. I found this voltage
- to be critical for modem's performace and how -cd option of ax25.com
- driver works.
-
- Bad RXB causes the output of the TCM3105 to be asymetric.
- Suppose you receive a FSK signal modulated with square wave
- like: 010101010101010101... With proper RXB you get square wave
- with 50% duty cycle out of pin 8 of TCM3105. With bad RXB
- positive pulses are of different length then negative ones.
-
- mdmtest1.exe takes modem's output and measures the lengths
- of positive and negative pulses. Then it computes the deviation
- from full bit periods (for 1200 bps the bit period is 1sek/1200 = 0.83 ms)
- For synchronous transmition the pulse width should be a multiply
- of bit period. The program displays the average deviation
- from this rule. Ideally the deviation should be zero when a clean packet
- signal is being received. See it yourself...
-
- mdmtest2.exe does similar thing but it takes the period between
- modem's output transitions of same polarity. This value is used
- in improved algorithm for -cd option and it should in principle
- be insensitive to small RXB variation. But again: see it yourself...
-
- Pawel Jalocha, SP9VRC
-